François CholletVerified account

That's Transfer learning

There's a strong correlation between how long it takes a mammal to reach adulthood and how smart the mammal is. Exploring and playing is much more important than learning from example

It's because infants don't have "limited experience", they have millions of years of experience wired into their neural architecture by evolution.

There was a pithy phrase I heard in a talk that’s stuck with me (I think from Peter Norvig). Something like “The goal isn’t to duplicate human ability. We already know how to make more humans; I’ve made two of them.”

That's probably because brains - Produce manipulation instructions at multiple stages of processing of the input, not just at the end - Integrate information w/ alternance of compression along learnt dimensions and expansion across unlearnt ones (details http://luca-dellanna.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Techniques-for-the-Emergence-of-Meaning-in-ML.pdf …)

I would argue that you always try to expose a 1 year old to something he can face. Like not leaving him alone on the street where he will perform badlybut giving him a safe space where he can practice its new motor skills. It's like you are adapting the challenge to its skills.